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“In regards to unintended consequences, if the program had been terminated immediately it would have violated a number of existing contracts. Rep. Gingrey considered that when seeking information about the DOE loan program,” Talaber said. She added: “Being a physician for more than 30 years, the congressman learned to ask his patients questions first, listen, consider the information, and then make a diagnosis. He applies that same discipline when making decisions here.”

At least three other committee Republicans — Californians Brian Bilbray and Mary Bono Mack and Charlie Bass of New Hampshire — have expressed concerns about the bill, sources said.

Bilbray told POLITICO he has "real problems" with the bill and wants to fix the program, not end it.

“I don’t think the whole system ought to be blown up because you had administrators who crossed the line,” he said. "The fact is, if done appropriately, there's some benefits there."

Bilbray said he is “actively lobbying members, leadership and everybody else” — and not just moderates in the two parties. “Frankly, I just had some discussion with some of the most conservative members of the full committee, and I’m getting a pretty positive response on a good way to be able to address this,” he said.

Bass spokeswoman Stephanie DuBois said the lawmaker will review the bill once it is marked up in the full committee, since he does not sit on the Energy and Power Subcommittee.

A spokeswoman for Bono Mack did not provide immediately comment.

Meanwhile, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the chairman of the panel’s Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, said he has not yet decided whether he believes the entire loan guarantee program should be phased out.

“I’m curious what’s going to happen,” Shimkus said during a short interview in the Capitol, referring to next week’s markup.

He added: “If they don’t have their act together, then they pull the bill. I’m not one to say it makes us look weak. It’s just a process.”

The “No More Solyndras Act” would block the DOE from approving loan guarantee applications submitted after Dec. 31, 2011.

The bill also would prevent the department from putting private investors ahead of taxpayers for repayment if a loan guarantee recipient declares bankruptcy. Republicans roundly support that provision.

The spat over the bill started last week when Barton told his fellow committee Republicans at a closed-door meeting on the Solyndra bill that he opposed ending the loan guarantee program.

Barton publicly expressed his opposition to killing the program for the first time the next day at a joint subcommittee hearing on the legislation.

“I don’t think we need to throw out the whole program. I think we can clean it up,” Barton said, calling for a series of reforms to prevent another Solyndra-like bankruptcy.

In the end, supporters of the measure expect that nearly all committee Republicans will rally behind the bill.

"It's been an interesting thing, but I think at the end everybody's going to end up where they're supposed to be," McKenna said.

This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 8:38 p.m. on July 19, 2012.

Let's see!... It's now got to be close to a dozen of Obama's Green-Tech start-ups that have either gone belly-up or are in the process of Filing for Bankruptcy - Start-ups that received DOE Loan Guarantees from the Obama Administration that now total close to $7.6 Billion - Funds that will now have to be paid back with Taxpayer Dollars.

Companies like Solyndra and the $535 Million Dollars given to Obama donors like George Kaiser - now Bankrupt with no accounting of the Millions, lost in the Byzantine depths of the DOE's Bureaucratic Shell Game.

Companies like Fisker whose Electric Car Manufacturing was "outsourced" to Finland - now shut-down with nothing to show for Taxpayers Investment!

Companies like Nevada Blue and Solar One dished out to Nevada with the guiding hand of Harry Reid at the Tellers Window!

Companies like Abound Solar and Geo-Thermal now listed among the casualties of Obama's Crony Capitlism.

This is what happens when we let sophomoric Progressives like Steven Chu and Barack Obama be the Gate-keeepers of the Public Purse!

It would seem that the "Peter Principle" is alive and well in the Obama Administration!

"Whitfield is also adamant in insisting the loan program be phased out. 'I just don’t think the federal government should be providing the venture capital for risky projects, particularly when we’re in the financial condition we’re in,' he said."

Does this mean he will also vote to overturn the Price-Anderson Act that provides billions of dollars in subsidies for nuclear reactor meltdown insurance? What about the billions of taxpayer dollars spent annually to safeguard private oil tankers in transit? Republicans LOVE LOVE LOVE socialism, just as long as it benefits their dirty energy company campaign contributors.

"Because one of the Solyndra investors, Argonaut Venture Capital, is funded by George Kaiser — a man who donated money to the Obama campaign — the loan guarantee has been attacked as being political in nature. What critics don’t mention is that one of the earliest and largest investors, Madrone Capital Partners, is funded by the family that started Wal-Mart, the Waltons. The Waltons have donated millions of dollars to Republican candidates over the years."

Exclusive Timeline: Bush Administration Advanced Solyndra Loan Guarantee for Two Years, Media Blow the Story

Essentially, we have two kinds of capitalism at work in America at this time. We do still have entrepeneurs who are trying to grow a business in tough times, which is the traditional American way of building wealth. But we also have predatory capitalism, which Bain epitomizes. Its latest victim is Sansata, a maker of sensors that Bain is closing and moving to China, using the asset-stripping model Mittens developed for Bain.

Which is better, Warren Buffet, who buys underperforming companies and builds them up? Or the Bains out there, who buy companies and strip their assets? Which one creates more wealth? Which one creates jobs for Americans? Which one creates jobs for China? The far right of the Republic party confuse the two, and in fact actually condemn job creators and reward job killers, like Bain, which will get a tax refund, believe it or not, for closing its factories here and shipping jobs and machinery to China.

Why do you think that is? Just a guess here okay, but maybe, just maybe, because Tea Party members are a bunch of raving lunatics and conspiracy theorist that would be easy to picture gunning down a crowd or becoming a suicide bomber.

You all are forgetting a very important thing here. Attorney General Eric With-Holder is investigating all these green-energy-companies-that-donated-money-to-obama's-campaign-that-get-government-money-then-declare-bankruptcy. If there's any wrongdoing here, he'll bring those responsible to justice.

Obviously the conservative movement (and The Tea Party) isn't finished cleaning up the corruption in The Republican Party. There are still "posers" pretending to be conservatives but take every opportunity to pass money to their friends under the table.

You hit the nail squarely on the head. Great comment filled with the details if the crony capitalism and abject failure that is the hallmark of this wasteful program administrated by a wasteful government department. This program is not the only thing that needs to be abolished, the DOE needs to go as well.